Wordle

On the weekend Andrew and I disposed of 18 boxes of books. Some went to charity, some to the used book store, some (moldy ones) to landfill. No matter where they ended up, that’s a lot of words leaving my home.

I felt a void and decided to fill the literary gap with Wordle, an online tool for generating “word clouds”. What’s a word cloud? See the picture above.

Wordle automatically generated the word cloud above based on text pulled from my most recent posts. But I don’t feel it fully reflects me. Cinnamon’s nice, but I don’t like it THAT much. And really, if you were describing my blog to someone (in a positive way) would “toxic”, “bung” and “aging” spring to mind?

So, I Wordled again, this time with a list of my favourite foodie terms. It generated this work of word art.

That it starts with soup and ends with dessert is completely accidental but fitting.

Got five minutes? Make a Wordle, post it to their gallery and send me the link. Sometimes, a picture paints a thousand words, even if it only uses a few dozen.

0 Responses to Wordle

Gosh, this is brilliant, and strangely beautiful, too. Can you print it out like a poster? I’d love to hang something like that in my office — I think it would be a great inspirational tool. I’m very excited to check out the link!

About Charmian

Charmian Christie is The Messy Baker® and author of the cookbook by the same name (Rodale / HarperCollins 2014). The Messy Baker was named a Top Cookbook for 2014 by the Toronto Star, The Calgary Herald and Canadian Living.